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At the start of production, the Pobeda was a thoroughly modern vehicle, but later the lack of functionality of its body shape became apparent. For this reason, the State Institute of Automotive Engineering in the USSR developed a Pobeda with a notchback body as early as 1948; two prototypes were built. Other body variants were planned, such as ...
Playboy Motor Car Corporation: Production: 1947–1951. 97 production cars plus one unfinished survivor numbered 98: Assembly: Buffalo, New York: Body and chassis; Body style: 2 door convertible: Layout: front-engine, rear-wheel-drive: Powertrain; Engine: Hercules flathead inline four-cylinder (early models)
In 1936 the M-1 replaced the GAZ-A on the manufacturer's production lines, with the first two cars produced in March of that year and volume production starting in May. By the end of 1936 the plant had produced 2,524 GAZ M-1s, and in 1937 an M-1 was displayed in Paris at the International Artistic and technical exhibition of modern life .
In early 1940, 100 Type 134N and Type 168 chassis were built and bodied by Renault as military cars under contract for the French army. The French government had ordered all private automobile production to cease in June 1939, but small numbers of cars continued to be built for the occupying German forces until at least 1942. [citation needed]
Their first car was the F89 using the body from the prototype F9 made before the war and the two-cylinder two-stroke engine from the last F8. Production went on until it was replaced by the successful three-cylinder engine that came with the F91. The F91 was in production 1953–1955, and was replaced by the larger F93 in 1956.
Briggs Bodies Limited set up works at Dagenham to manufacture steel bodies for cars and trucks and steel-stampings for Ford Motor Company Limited. Work started in May 1930 and production began in 1932. By July 1935 it had 4,500 employees and included these customers beside Ford, Austin, Chrysler, Riley, Standard and others.
Car production resumed with a four-cylinder model, the TA 14, based on the pre-war 12/70. A solid, reliable and attractive car, the TA 14 fitted well the mood of sober austerity in post-war Britain, but much of the magic attaching to the powerful and sporting pre-war models had gone and life was not easy for a specialist car manufacturer.
The 'mittlerer' (medium) Horch / Wanderer 901 was the most common variant of the various Einheits-Pkw (here: 'Typ(e) 40' in the August Horch Museum Zwickau.. Early on in the process of motorizing the German military before World War II, first the Reichswehr, and then the Wehrmacht had procured militarised versions of many different makes and models of civilian passenger cars.